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Ron Asheton, the guitarist for the Stooges whose raw sound helped inspire the first generation of punk musicians, has died. He was 60.
Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz.
Ann Arbor police are not sure how a naked man managed to get to a 10th floor apartment balcony for a pre-dawn break-in. Police in the University of Michigan campus town said a resident called about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, saying someone was breaking in through a sliding glass door on his balcony.
How many Ann Arbor city workers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Jennifer Gratz was turned away from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1995. The white high school honor student suspects she would have been admitted if she were black or Hispanic.
"Snakes on a Plane" didn't even get this much advance publicity. No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Michigan are a little less than a month away from their annual Big Ten grudge match, and it's all football fans in Ann Arbor and Columbus, Ohio, talk about. The players and coaches are another matter.
Former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler was admitted to an Ann Arbor hospital's cardiac-care unit for observation Friday after he felt ill at the taping of a weekly television show.
Google Inc. plans to open a new facility in the Ann Arbor, Mich., area that will employ 1,000 people within five years to handle advertising generated by the search engine, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and company officials said Tuesday.
A third of teens say they've texted while drivingA third of teens ages 16 and 17 say they have texted while driving and 48 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 say they have been in a car when the driver was texting, says a new Pew study.
Huron River Restoration in Ann ArborThe Ann Arbor city council knows how important a legitimate, fair, and broad balanced process it is to remove Argo Dam enabling the city to progress forwards in 2010. Investing in Blue Infrastructure results in huge dividends.
Argo Dam vs Whitewater Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan Ann Arbor city council has still failed to undertake a normal public process, never held a public hearing on this issue, canceled the hearing it had scheduled in July, never heard from its own experts on city staff,
Argo Dam in Ann ArborCouncil has failed to consider how the City will pay for Argo's upkeep when those costs are moved to the Parks Department budget.
That's all folks! See you online - One US daily has decided to go to the web rather than to the wallInstead of closing the title, the paper’s owner, the Newhouse family’s Advance Publications, has decided to relaunch the title online as Annarbor.com and publish a paper of the same name on Thursdays and Sundays.
University of Michigan Spending $2.5 Billion to GrowAn army of ironworkers, masons, carpenters and laborers are swarming the campus of the University of Michigan these days, as the university undertakes a construction campaign budgeted at $2.5 billion, ranking it among the largest university building programs in the United States.
Amish bus rolls over in Mich.; 14 injuredA tractor-trailer crashed into an overloaded bus carrying members of an Amish church, sending at least 14 people, including a number of children, to a hospital in nearby Ann Arbor.
Dalai Lama calls for greater focus on inner contentment and compassionWho says that the Dalai Lama's followers don't worship him like a god? Richard Gere does as evidenced in Ann Arbor at two large talks attended by over 14,000. "Among those on hand for the lecture were former U-M football coach Lloyd Carr and Bill Ford, chairman of Ford Motor Co.
First U.S City To Be Lit With 100% LEDs: Ann Arbor!Ann Arbor is on its way to being the first U.S. city to light up its downtown with 100% LED-based streetlights. The city expects to install more than 1,000 LED streetlights beginning next month. The city anticipates a 3.8-year payback on its initial investment.
Iowa's Ferentz a top candidate for U-M jobThe latest anonymous source report on the Michigan coach search now has Kirk Ferentz as a strong candidate for the job.
A Look Inside GoogleI spent Halloween with a few members from the AdWords team. When I questioned why one had written her name atop a lit pumpkin, I soon learned this now-carved cat had been reserved from Google's very own pumpkin patch.
A Delicious RevelationEver think about what's on your dinner plate before digging in? Where do the poultry, greens, veggies, cheese and bread really come from? And more importantly, why should you care?
Ann Arbor leads trend away from bottled waterThis summer, the city council in Ann Arbor, Mich., took a stand against bottled water, passing a resolution urging the promotion of the city's tap water. At its annual art fair in July, the city sold 500 reusable water bottles for $4 apiece. The containers sold out within hours.
UPDATE: Measles Investigation Continues || WXYZ.com | WXYZ-TV / Detroit | Detroit News, Weather, Sports and MoreA mix-up at the Centers for Disease Control apparently resulted in officials in Michigan getting erroneous confirmation of measles. INSIDE: Watch latest Action News report
High school football players 'fix' vote for leukemia-stricken kingIt was halftime at the Lake Fenton-Mount Morris game, seemingly just another high school football contest during another homecoming week on another October Friday night in another American suburb. But this time the fix was in.
Google in Ann Arbor: a year later Hiring appears slow, but local leader says it's on trackOne year after Google came to Ann Arbor, the Internet company has established a highly visible presence in downtown Ann Arbor and has been a catalyst for a revitalization of sorts for the area between Main and State Streets.
Lower-division schools now eligible for Division 1-A poll - College FootballAfter pulling off one of the greatest upsets in college football history, Appalachian State is still shaking things up. The Associated Press said Thursday that lower-division schools -- that means you, Mountaineers -- are now eligible for its 71-year-old poll.
At : Dangle Cartoons Are So Funny � You Almost Swallow Your TongueHas Cheney got a bead on "Troubletown" and Lloyd Dangle's toons? Does Lou Dobbs have a deep seated fear of lepers, or just the pox?
YouTube, copyright and the man who 'discovered' Michael Jordan (with video)Meet Han Lee, aka 'hoopsencyclopedia', the man behind all the Michael Jordan highlight clips on YouTube.
Transplant Team Killed, Organ Lost in Plane CrashThis is heartbreaking: The plane never made it, crashing into the lake's choppy waters and killing all six people aboard. Now the critically ill patient could become the accident's seventh fatality.
Cop charged in sexual assaultsDetroit Police sergeant allegedly made two couples perform sex acts in front of him; he is suspended. A Detroit police sergeant has been charged with sexual assault stemming from allegations he forced two young couples to perform sex acts while he watched, police sources said We …
Masturbating female trespasser booted from fratPolice have been unable to locate a woman who entered the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house without permission on Thursday and began to masturbate on a couch.
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